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May 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marc Cheong, Senior Lecturer of Information Systems, School of Computing and Information Systems; and (Honorary) Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Whether it’s Facebook’s News Feed or TikTok’s For You page, social media algorithms are constantly making behind-the-scenes decisions to boost certain content ... <a title="Feed me: 4 ways to take control of social media algorithms and get the content you actually want" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/11/feed-me-4-ways-to-take-control-of-social-media-algorithms-and-get-the-content-you-actually-want-204374/" aria-label="Read more about Feed me: 4 ways to take control of social media algorithms and get the content you actually want">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Jucker, Lecturer in Atmospheric Dynamics, UNSW Sydney The 2019-2020 bushfire season was devastating. Vast areas of pristine forest burned, many for the first time in memory. By some estimates, a billion native animals died up and down Australia’s east coast. Dozens of people died. While Sydney’s ... <a title="Smoke from the Black Summer fires could have made the triple La Niña more likely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/11/smoke-from-the-black-summer-fires-could-have-made-the-triple-la-nina-more-likely-205292/" aria-label="Read more about Smoke from the Black Summer fires could have made the triple La Niña more likely">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joelle Gergis, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University One of the key findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Synthesis Report is that there are solutions available right now, across all sectors of the economy, that could at least halve greenhouse gas emissions ... <a title="Fear and Wonder podcast: the solutions needed to address climate change already exist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/11/fear-and-wonder-podcast-the-solutions-needed-to-address-climate-change-already-exist-205114/" aria-label="Read more about Fear and Wonder podcast: the solutions needed to address climate change already exist">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracy Woodroffe, Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges, Charles Darwin University A key part of the 2023 budget was a pledge to “achieve a better future” for Indigenous Australians through measures that would make a “practical difference”. This included a particular focus on the Northern Territory, with a A$250 ... <a title="The budget makes glossy announcements on Indigenous education, but real change requires more than just money" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/11/the-budget-makes-glossy-announcements-on-indigenous-education-but-real-change-requires-more-than-just-money-205387/" aria-label="Read more about The budget makes glossy announcements on Indigenous education, but real change requires more than just money">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Inflation, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said, is “a tax on the poor”. The great budget challenge for him and Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been to deliver help to Australians struggling with ... <a title="No, the budget does not make further interest rate rises more likely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/11/no-the-budget-does-not-make-further-interest-rate-rises-more-likely-205391/" aria-label="Read more about No, the budget does not make further interest rate rises more likely">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Lycett, NHMRC Early Career Fellow, Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development, Deakin University Australians’ satisfaction with life as a whole is at its lowest level in 21 years, according to the latest Australian Unity Wellbeing Index survey, a collaboration between Deakin University and mutual company ... <a title="Australians’ satisfaction with life is at its lowest level in two decades" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/11/australians-satisfaction-with-life-is-at-its-lowest-level-in-two-decades-205008/" aria-label="Read more about Australians’ satisfaction with life is at its lowest level in two decades">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark R Johnson, Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney Flickr Minecraft Legends has just been released, giving players another opportunity to return to the charming and blocky world of Minecraft. The original Minecraft was first released in 2011, giving players a vast and open world constructed ... <a title="Minecraft Legends is a reminder that lightning rarely strikes twice in gaming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/11/minecraft-legends-is-a-reminder-that-lightning-rarely-strikes-twice-in-gaming-204907/" aria-label="Read more about Minecraft Legends is a reminder that lightning rarely strikes twice in gaming">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Will the budget make inflation worse? Are its boosts to welfare payments just the first step for the Labor government? Could the projected one-off surplus be followed by another one or more? What (if any) of the budget measures will ... <a title="The day after the night before – Chalmers and Taylor on the budget" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/11/the-day-after-the-night-before-chalmers-and-taylor-on-the-budget-205431/" aria-label="Read more about The day after the night before – Chalmers and Taylor on the budget">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University Pervez Masih/AP The arrest this week of former Pakistan prime minister and cricket legend Imran Khan has triggered nationwide protests targeting military and other institutions, some of which have turned violent. Pakistan’s political crisis has worsened significantly since Khan ... <a title="How Imran Khan’s populism has divided Pakistan and put it on a knife’s edge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/10/how-imran-khans-populism-has-divided-pakistan-and-put-it-on-a-knifes-edge-205392/" aria-label="Read more about How Imran Khan’s populism has divided Pakistan and put it on a knife’s edge">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Bekessy, Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University The Albanese government has made bold environmental promises over the last year. Given the parlous state of nature in Australia, these commitments are important. The promises include ending new ... <a title="If the budget ditched the Stage 3 tax cuts, Australia could save every threatened species – and lots more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/10/if-the-budget-ditched-the-stage-3-tax-cuts-australia-could-save-every-threatened-species-and-lots-more-205305/" aria-label="Read more about If the budget ditched the Stage 3 tax cuts, Australia could save every threatened species – and lots more">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Walker, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University Shutterstock Australian innovation has the capacity to protect us – our environment, our digital world, our borders and our health. All of these are focuses of this year’s federal budget. But the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) sector has ... <a title="Amid a STEM crisis, here’s what the 2023 budget promises for Australian science and innovation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/10/amid-a-stem-crisis-heres-what-the-2023-budget-promises-for-australian-science-and-innovation-205204/" aria-label="Read more about Amid a STEM crisis, here’s what the 2023 budget promises for Australian science and innovation">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trivess Moore, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University Shutterstock The quality and performance of our housing have big impacts on the environment, cost of living and our health and wellbeing. The 2023-24 federal budget’s announcement of $1.6 billion for energy-saving upgrades to ... <a title="Budget’s energy bill relief and home retrofit funding is a good start, but dwarfed by the scale of the task" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/10/budgets-energy-bill-relief-and-home-retrofit-funding-is-a-good-start-but-dwarfed-by-the-scale-of-the-task-205380/" aria-label="Read more about Budget’s energy bill relief and home retrofit funding is a good start, but dwarfed by the scale of the task">Read more</a>
